DERADOORIAN
Touring Australia April 2016
Off the back of the previously announced FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NGV during Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei series performance and the 2015 release of debut album The Expanding Flower Planet comes more dates in these here Antipodean gardens.
“The Expanding Flower Planet feels like an album full of trap doors, where a single, unexpected sound can deposit you into new worlds. Deradoorian explores krautrock rhythms, microtonal tunings, and various Eastern scales, including those of her Armenian heritage.”
Like an ancient familiar… glowing and warping, burning brightly and floating gracefully, permanently transcending. Others imitate the past and others divine inspiration and transmit it elsewhere. Deradoorian embodies the latter idea, synthesizing faint hints of Alice Coltrane and Can, Terry Riley, and Dorothy Ashby. A new world springs from ancient traditions—with East Indian, Middle Eastern, traditional Japanese music and Native American rhythms aligned with Deradoorian’s singular orbit.
You’re familiar with Angel Deradoorian’s voice… as the former bassist, keyboardist and vocalist for Dirty Projectors, her levitating vocals buoyed the Brooklyn-based group. A member of Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, the voice on Flying Lotus’ “Siren Song,” as well as collaborations with Vampire Weekend, Bjork, Matmos, the Roots et al. Her first song collection, 2009’s Mind Raft EP elicited praise… The Fader hailed her ‘zen weed energy’ and ‘moody dervish spirals’. Angel Deradoorian’s debut album The Expanding Flower Planet is “full of unusual juxtapositions: ’60s psych and Georgian polyphony; classical minimalism and laser-show maximalism; dulcimer and church organ. But her voice is the thread that holds it all together, and once the album has finished, tied off with a ribbon of wailing trombone, it’s her voice you remember most.”
DERADOORIAN
Expanding Australia tour 2016
Presented by The Music and 4ZZZ
FRI 15 APR Melbourne FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NGV
tickets on sale now from www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program-series/friday-nights/
SAT 16 APR Sydney NEWTOWN SOCIAL CLUB
plus special guests
tickets on sale now from newtownsocialclub.com and ph 1300 724 867
SUN 17 APR Brisbane THE ZOO
plus special guests
tickets on sale now from zoo.oztix.com.au and Oztix outlets
The Expanding Flower Planet out now on Anticon
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VIDEO: Deradoorian – “A Beautiful Woman”
DERADOORIAN – The Expanding Flower Planet (Anticon)
…is an album, a song, a cosmic ideal, a form of psychic expansion and expanded capability. It’s original and personal. It transmutes ethereal abstractions into crystalline harmonies and sinuous grooves. It’s music nurtured with the idea of healing, exciting, inspiring, enlightening. Drones, dissonance, warmth, and love. Even if you’re unfamiliar with Deradoorian’s name, you’re likely familiar with her voice. Her debut LP, The Expanding Flower Planet reflects a remarkable creative journey. The title came from a tapestry hanging on the wall in front of Deradoorian’s workstation—a Chinese embroidered image of a flower mandala.
“It started to represent to me the growing consciousness of the human mind in the world today,” Deradoorian says. “So the first song I wrote, which I felt appropriate for the album, was called Expanding Flower Planet and represents this desire to broaden the mind and it’s capabilities beyond what we are told it can do. Recorded in various locales over a period of several years, sessions began from scratch in Baltimore, 2011, before moving to her studio in LA. Some tracking was done in a church. Extra tracks were recorded at The Topaz Chamber, which belongs to Deradoorian’s friend, Kenny Gilmore. This is an album so refulgent that it actually sounds like it was made in a Topaz chamber. Roughly 90 percent was written and performed solely by Deradoorian, with assists from drummers Jeremy Hyman and Michael Lockwood, guest vocalist Niki Randa, Arlene Deradoorian and Gilmore, who helped the songs breathe. It’s essentially the offspring of a labyrinthine odyssey of self-exploration. In the course of cutting it, Deradoorian realized a more profound communion with music than she’d ever experienced. It’s salient in the songs, which glow and warp, burn brightly and float gracefully past sun and assorted stars.
“It seemed endless, but eventually the shift occurred and it was like a revelation,” Deradoorian describes the epiphany. “I was incredibly grateful for when that day came. It was the first time I really had to force myself to be patient and understand that good things will take time. It won’t all happen when you want it to. It’ll happen when it’s supposed to—when you’re truly ready.”